Bug 104939

Summary:	yast does not like FreeBSD
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	peter czanik <peter>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	Beta 3
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	YaST message, if there is a FreeBSD partition yast2 logs updated libstorage binary

Description peter czanik 2005-08-16 14:14:53 UTC

If there is a FreeBSD partition, YaST is unable to partition during
installation. It's not even possible to use fdisk from rescue, and use the
prepared Linux partition, as YaST shows garbage in the partitioner.
I deleted, FreeBSD from my test machine, installed beta1, and reinstalled
FreeBSD, and now I get the same message, when starting YaST. I will create an
attachement.

Comment 1 peter czanik 2005-08-16 14:15:49 UTC

Created attachment 46172 [details]
YaST message, if there is a FreeBSD partition

Comment 2 Thomas Fehr 2005-08-16 15:10:56 UTC

Please attach files below /var/log/YaST2 
and the contents of /proc/partitions and output of "parted /dev/sda print"

Comment 3 peter czanik 2005-08-16 15:24:47 UTC

dhcp210:~ # cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   8     0   35566000 sda
   8     1     514048 sda1
   8     2   10490445 sda2
   8     3   24555352 sda3
   8     5     262144 sda5
   8     6    1048576 sda6
   8     7     524288 sda7
   8     8     524288 sda8
   8     9   22196056 sda9
dhcp210:~ # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 36.4 GB, 36419584000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4427 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          64      514048+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2              65        1370    10490445   83  Linux
/dev/sda3   *        1371        4427    24555352+  a5  FreeBSD
dhcp210:~ # parted /dev/sda print
Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0kB - 36GB
Disk label type: msdos
Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
1       32kB    526MB   526MB   primary   linux-swap   type=82
2       526MB   11GB    11GB    primary   reiserfs     type=83
3       11GB    36GB    25GB    primary                boot, type=a5
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.

dhcp210:~ #

...
SCSI device sda: 71132000 512-byte hdwr sectors (36420 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
 sda3: <bsd: sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 >
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
...

Comment 4 peter czanik 2005-08-16 15:25:23 UTC

Created attachment 46185 [details]
yast2 logs

Comment 5 Thomas Fehr 2005-08-17 13:33:35 UTC

Thanks, I fixed this now in libstorage. 
Since I have no easy way to test this I would appreciate if you could test 
if my fixe helps. I will attach a updated version of liby2storage please
copy it to /usr/lib/liby2storage.so.2.0.0 (be sure to keep the old version
as a backup). With the new library installed "yast2 disk" should work fine.

If there are still problems please reopen and attach new y2log files.

Alternately you may simply wait for beta#3 which will of course contain the fix.

Comment 6 Thomas Fehr 2005-08-17 13:34:50 UTC

Created attachment 46313 [details]
updated libstorage binary

Comment 7 peter czanik 2005-08-19 06:09:00 UTC

It seems to work fine. yast2 disk worked as exptected with the new lib. I'm
looking forward to beta3, as my primary machine has 2 FreeBSD's installed (I'm
beta testing FreeBSD 6.0 as well :) ).

Comment 8 Uri Sharf 2005-08-27 19:34:58 UTC

please see: [Bug 113521]
It's on a DesktopBSD machine as well, seems to run into some problems during mkinird

Comment 9 Thomas Fehr 2005-08-29 05:34:37 UTC

I had a look, but this is certainly not a problem with yast2-storage but
a problems with handling dynamic devices within initrd.